I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They must have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have heard of the new chemical nomenclature endeavored to be introduced by Lavoisier, Fourcroy, &c. Other chemists of this country, of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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